Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

Funding Follows Growth and Acquisitions The big fundraising event in this space in the first part of 2021 was Camunda and their $100 million series B round. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Highland Europe. Acquisitions like this start to make the math for Camunda’s fundraise make a lot of sense.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Yet, even though our team had experience with several previous successful acquisitions, after the initial rush of excitement, the hard reality of bringing together two separate entities set in. Integrating an acquisition is difficult in the best of circumstances and can often fail to meet stakeholders’ expectations.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. This is why our firm is quite multi-disciplinary, and why my Partners and I often lead investments in overlapping areas.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). These cloud based software programs are connected and operated on extranet. These services have been used by companies to share information with outsiders like lawyers, auditors, partners or even customers.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. Previous Entries.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At the same time, despite some realizations in recent years through M&A, PE acquisitions, and IPOs, the general sense I get from LPs is that the level of distributions don’t quite line up with the unrealized performance. This data seems to line up with the narrative I’m hearing on the ground. . LP Constraints.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

Smart or Self Driving Cars, IoT Devices, Smart Homes, Medical chip implants, Bots, and Robots to assist you; in short, everything will be connected to the internet and cloud. One such industry is the Network Marketing, which entirely depends on customer acquisition. Trends that could spur investments in Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It’s clear that in the future movies & TV will be delivered to our homes from the cloud. Equally, the streaming business has got to accelerate content acquisition, focus on customer retention, improve streaming technologies to make it better for users / worse for competitors, and they’ve got to continually improve the UI.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. On to the roundtable recap.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Cracking The Code.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

4- Partner and create books. Find (at least) three institutional partners who will use us. Have potential partners reach out to us. Noble Child’s cloud-based applications help systematically take on the growing foster care crisis caused by the opioid epidemic. I cannot wait to see what 2019 brings. .

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Your results, thanks to our high performance compute cloud should be available within an hour. DNAnexus ( www.dnanexus.com ) is pioneering the combination of cloud computing and whole-genome DNA sequence analysis. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The acquisition of Omniture by Adobe for $1.8B and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. As we are entering a new year, I thought it would be interesting to publish every quarter an update on the state of the 13 public SaaS/Cloud companies in the Index. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Headout announced their $10M Series A , led by Nexus Venture Partners and V1. You can read more about the acquisition from Coinbase and on Wired. Sales automation company Outreach was named to Forbes’ Cloud 100 list and made its first acquisition. Announcements and Accolades. Our own news.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A funny video of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle on Cloud Computing. But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? Cloud Computing. (1).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The partners at Benchmark are delighted to announce that Scott Belsky has joined the firm as our newest general partner. It is rare for us to encounter a partner candidate who has so much experience as an operator, investor, and advisor at such a young age. Adding a new partner is a significant event for Benchmark.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

With a bigger focus on platforms in the “Cloud” by companies like yours, what are your expectations for this in the next year to 18 months? The “Cloud” is an example of how quickly this industry evolves. The “Cloud” is a fairly disruptive model and it will take people time to understand how best to adapt to it and benefit from it.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Find out how startups and corporations can partner to achieve results that truly benefit both sides. This panel will help you get a better understanding of how Talent-Leadership-Culture drives ROI and how it can be achieved, with Wade Allen, CEO of Cendea, Jim Bledsoe, Senior Partner of Cendea, and KimGorsuch, CEO of Weeva.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The new equity round will fuel additional growth and provide capital for further acquisitions. Outreach and Shippo were both named 2022 Cloud 100 honorees for the second year in a row! . Headout is partnering with @FlixBus to bring exciting offers and adventures to travelers across Europe. Product Updates & Partnerships.

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Portfolio Phoenix Portland Europe 60

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Drones, augmented reality, wearable tech, modular construction, cloud and mobile technology: the construction site of tomorrow is certainly going to look different. Even the World Economic Forum is now working with global partners for the development of construction. by Ramzi Jreidini , CEO of Handiss.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Austin-based Periscope Holdings has acquired BidSync, a cloud-based procurement and bid notification service for the public sector. Parthenon Capital Partners, Periscope’s private equity partner, assisted in the acquisition. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). has partnered with the National Health Service in the UK to deliver personalised health assistance via an app. Better search.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

the business was the same and through acquisitions it became to be worth $1.33 At the beginning of Coremetrics in 1999, the market risk was whether or not companies would embrace the outsourced model (what we called ASP, or Application Service Providers, back then, and are now called SaaS, or Software as a Service, or “cloud” providers).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

If your space is crowded, define three groups, and name a specific in each group, such as “Company X is the best of the cloud solutions.” The best way to support your acquisition potential for $100 million -- or going public -- is to find a competitor who has shown it can be done. Dig deeper than Wikipedia for facts on key competitors.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, for example, IBM set out to expand its cloud business. It shopped around for partners and eventually decided to purchase SoftLayer , a successful cloud infrastructure provider. IBM leveraged this acquisition with the Catalyst Startup Program , which offers free technical services and mentorship to startups.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

He was also VP of Software at Pixar, developing Pixar’s film-making system, and at Amazon where he ran a cloud services project. The Tidepool team originally believed they were going charge their device partners “market prices” for access to their platform. Howard Look , CEO of Tidepool, was VP of Software and User Experience at TiVo.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

This kind of trust is an intellectual weighing of the evidence out of which a buyer makes an informed judgement, predicting a partner’s future behavior. When clients hear and feel this in their consulting and professional services partners, they are reassured that the firm they are hiring will act in the clients’ interests.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. AppDynamics.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue. For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Last month, Google announced it will be shutting down Stadia , its cloud-gaming service and will refund all customers by January 2023. And what does it mean for the future of Cloud Gaming from here on? The premise of Cloud Gaming. The stakes of Cloud Gaming are high. Cloud Gaming Hiccups. Why did it fail?

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Cloud Bandwidth IP Global 199

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. M&A – Acquisitions. Another big commercial area is Google Cloud for startups. Google Cloud or Google Compute).

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2013

It’s an honor, a privilege and so supremely awesome to announce that our newest General Partner is Lars Dalgaard. billion acquisition by SAP in 2011. This was by far the largest and most important acquisition in the history of the SaaS category. Andreessen Horowitz People General Partner Lars Dalgaard SAP SuccessFactors'

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